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The state where it happened could then go after them. Trump can't pardon those crimes.
“Dual sovereignty” allows a state (or multiple states) to prosecute people for the same crimes as the federal government.
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“If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.”
-- Ulysses S. Grant
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